Viator Travel Blog

Whether you’re an adventure seeker or a traveler looking for a new experience, adventure travel will get your adrenaline pumping plus you’ll see amazing sights and scenery along the way. On an adventure vacation, you can whiz through a rainforest on a zipline, discover an array of sea life along a colorful coral reef, hike to a volcanic crater at sunrise, or see gorillas on a jungle safari. Check out these 10 adventure experiences and see which ones fit you best.

For the ninth week of our Viator’s 2011 Ultimate Holiday Giveaway, we’re giving away tickets to one of our most popular Las Vegas tours!

I’m not sure that there’s any way I can properly convey how much fun I had on the Hidden Valley and Primm Extreme ATV or RZR Tour. We got to the departure point fairly early in the morning when the air was still a bit cool. It was nice to be away from the noise and hassle of the Strip. The departure point is in Jean, NV – which is a bit south of Las Vegas and is well away from the traffic and congestion.

Long thought of by globe trekkers as the literal and figurative pinnacle of the great outdoors, many travelers quickly find that culturally rich Nepal is not just a country of natural attractions, but a historically affluent testament to anthropology, whilst being both encouragingly and (through poverty) disastrously subversive to modernity. Either way, Nepal is an adventure, full of all the right elements that make it an ideal destination for the adventurous traveler. Below are 5 places you simply cannot miss.

What do you get with a three-wheeled auto-rickshaw, two weeks, 72 teams and a tentative route through India that spans nearly 2,000 miles?

You get the Rickshaw Run, that’s what.

If you want to walk in the footsteps of Jack the Ripper, London’s most notorious serial killer, sit in Sweeny Todd’s infamous barber’s chair or face the hangman’s drop at Newgate Prison, then the London Dungeon is the place for you.

Every four years, the best rugby teams from around the world gather to have it out for the title of World Champion. The 2011 tournament started September 9 and stretches for six weeks in 12 stadiums across both the North and South Islands of New Zealand. Whether you’re a dedicated fan who will be touring the country in search of the best matches or a general sports lover who’ll make your way to Auckland for the final game on October 23, you’ll need some action and adventure to keep you busy between events. And there’s no better place on earth to find outdoor adventure than in New Zealand.

How many tours take you past 1,000-pound sea creatures by boat in the morning and then flying above an ancient mystery in a small plane in the afternoon? A world away from Peru‘s iconic images of llamas and Inca ruins in the Andes are two very different attractions. One is a set of rocky islands teeming with wildlife, the other a mysterious set of lines and figures drawn on the ground – by people who never saw them from the air.

Talk about juxtaposition – the journey by plane from the staggering artificiality of the Las Vegas Strip to the jaw-dropping spectacle of the Grand Canyon is one transition that underlines the vivid allure that each has to offer in its own unique way.
Air tours of the Canyon’s West Rim make it possible to take in the astonishing vistas like a true VIP. The flight alone is worth the ticket price, allowing passengers to gape at country that has been sacred to the Hualapai Indian tribe for time out of mind.

Let’s be very clear on one point: I am not the outdoor adventure type. For me, a chairlift is a white-knuckle ride. This could be due to the vertigo that had me nearly jumping into Tasmania’s Cataract Gorge from a height of 1000 feet when I was fifteen – but that’s another story. Recently I took my first trip to New Zealand. I’d heard that it is beautiful – well, it is! What I didn’t realise was that New Zealanders tend to be barking mad.